Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCA DEDFEGHGHF IJIJIKIK JLJMJJNJJN OJOJHHPQH RRSKTKSOOTKUKVUWK OXVKY HOHXWhile I sit at the door | A |
Sick to gaze within | B |
Mine eye weepeth sore | A |
For sorrow and sin | B |
As a tree my sin stands | C |
To darken all lands | C |
Death is the fruit it bore | A |
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How have Eden bowers grown | D |
Without Adam to bend them | E |
How have Eden flowers blown | D |
Squandering their sweet breath | F |
Without me to tend them | E |
The Tree of Life was ours | G |
Tree twelvefold fruited | H |
Most lofty tree that flowers | G |
Most deeply rooted | H |
I chose the tree of death | F |
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Hadst thou but said me nay | I |
Adam my brother | J |
I might have pined away | I |
I but none other | J |
God might have let thee stay | I |
Safe in our garden | K |
By putting me away | I |
Beyond all pardon | K |
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I Eve sad mother | J |
Of all who must live | L |
I not another | J |
Plucked bitterest fruit to give | M |
My friend husband lover | J |
O wanton eyes run over | J |
Who but I should grieve | N |
Cain hath slain his brother | J |
Of all who must die mother | J |
Miserable Eve | N |
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Thus she sat weeping | O |
Thus Eve our mother | J |
Where one lay sleeping | O |
Slain by his brother | J |
Greatest and least | H |
Each piteous beast | H |
To hear her voice | P |
Forgot his joys | Q |
And set aside his feast | H |
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The mouse paused in his walk | R |
And dropped his wheaten stalk | R |
Grave cattle wagged their heads | S |
In rumination | K |
The eagle gave a cry | T |
From his cloud station | K |
Larks on thyme beds | S |
Forbore to mount or sing | O |
Bees drooped upon the wing | O |
The raven perched on high | T |
Forgot his ration | K |
The conies in their rock | U |
A feeble nation | K |
Quaked sympathetical | V |
The mocking bird left off to mock | U |
Huge camels knelt as if | W |
In deprecation | K |
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The kind hart's tears were falling | O |
Chattered the wistful stork | X |
Dove voices with a dying fall | V |
Cooed desolation | K |
Answering grief by grief | Y |
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Only the serpent in the dust | H |
Wriggling and crawling | O |
Grinned an evil grin and thrust | H |
His tongue out with its fork | X |
Christina Rossetti
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